Type-writing machine.



L. A. WERNERY.

TYPE WRITING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 1AN.4, 1917.

1,275,637'. 1 Y ,lzltvntud Aug. 13, 1918.

"T e m .LESTER a.' wanen-EY, or Brtoorir, NEW YORK, assit-:fries To ormnavoo TYPE- WRITEB. CQMPANY, OIF NEW YORK, N. Y., a GQREQB/A'EGN 0F DELAWARE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Fa'tented Ang. 13, 1918.

.application filed January 4, 1917. Serial No. 140,512.

"are adapted to cooperate with alining or -positioning devices associated with the typewriter platen, to render the sheet self-positioning at diiferent desired heights. The typist may p osition a work-sheet accurately on the platen without the necessity of looking at any scale, by passing the sheet around the platen until it is arrested by the 'positioning device and properly alined by that, with the aid of other devices, if necessary. The ordinary Underwood typewriting machine may be used, and gages or pins may be provided for arresting the work-sheet bymeans of its shoulders, these gages being separated, to permit the body of the sheet to pass between them. These pins may advantageously be connected to the feed-roll re- Vare effective when the feed rolls are released,

thus making it easy to adjust the paper accurately, while the throwing of theA feed rolls against the platen is accompanied by the return ofthe pins to ineffective position.

A singlexed tab or shoulder may be provided upon opposite sides of the statements,

which usually are only onceinserted inthe machine; while the' ledger sheets, which are put into the machine every time a new statement is made out, are to be positioned differently, according to where the last entry thereon ended. These ledger sheets I provide with a detachable border on each side, consisting of a series of `detachable segments or tabs, at intervals corresponding to the printed lines thereon. These tabs may be in the form of integral extensions of the ledger sheet, but perforated to make each tab of the above-described size, s0 that they' may be readily detached therefrom. The tabs or segments on one side match those upon the other side. In a loose-leaf ledger system, these tabsfmay advantageously be on only one side of the sheet, that is, the side of the sheet which is clamped in the loose-leaf binder, while the sheet itself may be trued or alined with the help of side gages, thus rendering it unnecessary, in many instances, to provide tabs on both sides of the ledger sheet, although in many other instances this will be found advisable.

Other features and advantages will herei inafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l lis a perspective view of a typewriting machine showing so much of the Fig. 3 is a side view of the part shown inl A Fig. l, the feed rolls thrown ofi'- from the platen and the alining pins in collating p0- sition.

Fig. 4 is afview similar to Fig. 3, but i showing lv'the feed rolls against the platen, the alining pins in their ineifective position,V and the type-bar in the act of printing.`

Fig. 5 is a fragment of aledger sheet .l

showing the tabs.

Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic perspectivev'iewl showing how the sheets may be arranged lease mechanism, in such a way that the pins connected.

-The usual Underwood typewriter carriage includes a frame 1, in which is revolubly mounted a platen 2 whch is provided with knobs 3, by lwhich it mayy be turned yand also with the-usual line-space mechanism including the line-,space wheel 4, which is adapted to turn the platen in linelspace units when driven by thepawl 5,- which is'l operated in the usual manner by thelinespace lever 6. To insert a'work-sheet' inthe platen, the work-sheet is passed over a--paper table 7, at the rear of the platen, vwhich curves beneaththe Platen so as .to guide/thev workfsheet out in front of the platen, 'earrying it past the front and vrear feed rolls ..8

and 9. YThese feed rolls normally `bear the plate l, i o work- 'hects forward as 'ing said Work-sheets again The carriage is provided wi release handle 10, which when depressed from the position seen in el into that seen in Fig. 3, removes the feed rolls 8 and 9 from the platen, thus allowing free passage for the work-sheets. rihe statement work-sheet is provided with a shoulder 11 which is adapted to strike and be arrested by a left-hand gage or pin 12, said pin being mounted on a transversely extending rock shaft 13, which extends across the carriage above the platen and is journaled in brackets 14 fast to the platen fra-me. dThere is usually also provided a second right hand gage or pin 15 which is similarly fast on the rock shaft 13. When the feed rolls 8 and 9 are cast off in the usual manner by operating the fingerl piece 10, the rock shaft s 13l maybring the pins 12 and 15 forwardly so that they stand out nearly horizontal (Fig. `3) from the face of a table 16 upon which the paper is guided, said table extending down some dist-ance toward the printing line and-about into contact with the platen.

A work-sheet may then be inserted over the usual paper table 7, and between the usual side guides 1i' and 18, which serve to start it correctly, and then the work-sheet passes up past the rolls'S and 9, in front ofthe .to be inserted in' the machine.

platen, onto the table 16. It is guided against the table 1G by fingers 19 and 20 kWhich are fast to said table and extend down to the printing point and slightly in front of the lower paper 'apron 21 which formsan extension of the paper table 7.

The table 16 with its fingers 19 and 20 may be formed (Fig. 9) integral with a sleeve 22 which extends across between the brackets 14, to which' it is fast, and surrounds the rock shaft 1 3. The 'rock shaft 13 is connected to the finger piece 10 by means of a rock arm 23, which is faston the shaft, and pivotally connected by means of a link 24k to the fingerpiece 10.. The sleeve 22 is slotted at 25 to accommodate. each of the alining pins 12 and 15.

v The fingers 19 and 20, as stated, are rigid with the paperA table 16 and rise from eollars 26 embracing the sleeve v22, andkhave faces 27 projecting radially of the platen along the side edges of the paper table 16. The faces 27 are only a little more than sufficient in depth to accommodate the greatest number of work-sheets which is likely A The fingers 19 and 2O are bent so that the fiat extensions thereof cverlie the face of the paper table 16. andare spaced therefrom suffi# with interleaved carbonl sheets, and may be eitherinsertedonc by one as just stated, or first collated and put into the machine together. Each of these sheets is provided with a shoulder, on each side, to make the sheet self-positioning, the shoulders being the .printing point When those shoiulders strike thepins 12 and 15 which are in effective position. Since each statement sheet is usually yp ut into themachine only once, it may be provided with a single permanent shoulder 11,' for coperation with the pin 12,

the side alinement vof this lSheet being secured by placing its edge against one or both side guides 17 and 18. Usually it is de-y sirable for thev sheet to be provided with tWo shoulders for coperation With both pins 12 and 15. The shoulder 11 may be on la detachable margin 29, which is separable from the main sheet or the statement by ripping it along a perforation 30. There may be such a perforation or shoulder on each side of the statement sheet.

The ledger sheet is provided with a series of detachable segments, tabs or shoulders 31, each individuallyseparable by a line of vertical perforatons v30 and of horizontal perforations 32. If onlyJ one set of shoulders is used on the ledger sheet, and ifthe ledger sheet is to be bound in the loose-leaf binder by means of a post whichv asses through circular openings 34 in the edger sheet at the side thereof, the shoulders 31 may be provided on the side of the `sheetyvhich is quite i a margin at' the heading. the top shoulders may be separated bydifi'erently spaced perforations, as is indicated in Fig.

8, thus serving to yminimize the attention needed in utilizing this equipment, because the number of perforations to be detached in first making an entry need lnot be counted on a sheet like thatshown in Fig. 8.

In the assembled diagrammatic' perspective view of the collated sheets, Fig. .6, the statement 35 is shown in front, next to this and behind it is a carbon Isheet 36, behind that is collated the duplicate sheet 37, behind that is the second'carbon 36, and behind that is collated the ledger sheet 3?, and the fingers of the operative are shown in the vact of grasping and bringing theA statement sheet up to proper alinement.

c so .adapted to bring the right printed line to Lames? against the pins 12 and 15 against which the other sheets 3S and 37 have already been alined or collated upon the table 16. In collating each sheet, the operative may, however, slide it along `upon the collating table or guide 16 in a manner well know-n in this art, and while holding it in final position he may slide another sheet up upon the first, and so on, the table 16 supporting the pressure of the fingers upon each sheet as it is lightly slid upon the last, and the tendency being so hold each previously collated sheet up to the gages.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, and portions of the improvements vmay be used without others.

Having thus described my invention, Iv

claim: i

1., In a bookkeeping equipment, the coinbination with a typewriting machine, havingalining pins-shiftable to ineffective position, of a work-sheet having perforations so as to forma removable 4shoulder adapt- -ed to be positioned against said pins, when portions of the sheet are removed along said perforations. l I .A

2. In a bookkeeping equipment, the comvbination with a typewriting machine, havnationwith a rotatable platen anda paper guideadapted to receive paper which has' ing alining pins shiftable to ineffective osition, of work-sheets having shouldersja apted to be positioned against said pins, certain of said work-sheets being perforated so that said shoulders may be detachable tol positionisaid Vwork-I form new shoulders to sheets against said pins. y f f 3. In a 'bookkeeping equipment, the com bination with a typewriting machine, hav` ing alining pins shiftable to ineffective position, of work-sheetsof various types having shoulders adapted to lbe positioned against said pins, to aline said sheets simultaneously, said shoulder on at least one sheet being formed as part of a detachable perforated extension of said 'sheet.1`

4. In' a typewriting machine, the combination with a rotatableplaten and a paper guide adapted to receive paper which has been passed already around said platen, of feed rolls adapted to be cast ofi1 from said platen, alining pins adjacent the ends 0fr said paper guide, a shaft on whichv 'said` alining pinsaremounted, to project them substantially vertically from the surfacelofv said guide or rotatev them backwardly beneath its surface, a sleeve supporting saidl guide and surrounding said shaft, paper fingers extending downwardly and rearwardly from said guide,`and a paper apron extending up to .said fingers and adapt-.ed to A deliver the leading edge of a work-sheet to said fingers. 1

5. In a typewriting machine, thevcombi-v beenpassed \a\lready around said platen,fof

' guide adapted to receive a work-sheet which has been valready passed part way around the platen, of ngers extending above the surfaceof said guide to hold a work-sheet thereagainst, removable pins adapted to lie across the channel between said .fingers and said guide, and feed rolls normally lying.

aga-inst the platen, but adapted to be thrown ol" therefrom and when so thrown off moving said pins to ineffective position.

` 7z In a typewriting machine, the combi-`Y -nation of a revoluble platen -and a paper guide adapted to receive a work-sheet which has been already passed part way around the platen, of fingers-extending above the surface -of said guide to hold a work-sheet 1 thereagainst, removable pins adapted to lie 'across' the .channel between said fingers and said-guide, feed rolls normally lying against the`platen, but adapted to' be thrown 0E [therefrom and when so thrownof moving said pins to 'ineectivev position, a paper lapronexten'ding beneath said platen, and

fingers extending downwardly from said guide and bent downwardly to receive the `leading edge ofa work-sheet from saidl apron. Y

'8. In a typewritingmaehine, the combination'fwith a rotatable platen and a pa er guide adapted to receive paper which ias been passed already around sai'd platen toward the front thereof, of alining pins adjacent the front ends of said paper guide, a shaft on which said alining. pins are mounted, to rotate them into a position in the path of paper passing along said guide, or rotate .themv backwardly out of the path of the paper, and a sleeve supporting said guide and'surrounding' said shaft. A

9. A collating equipment for a typewriting machine having gaging or position-determining devices, said 'devices `spaced apart Ato form` a passage for the portion of the *sheets to be collated, said equipment including sheets, some of which have waste strips at each edge thereof, extending beyond the main portion andprepared for severance at 'various places vto .form jogs or shoulders for `cop'eration, with said gaging or positiondetermining devices, sojthatgt'he main portion of, any sheet may pass' between said de- 'I ,-vices, and whereby differentA sheets may be differently positioned relatively to each otherf., according to the position ci said jogs or shoulders.

10. In a typewriting machine, the combination with a rotatable platen and gaperapron therefor, of collating pins or devices at the iront side of the platen, and guides for the sheets to be collated, said guides so formed as to guide the paper from .the paper-apron to said' collating pins or devices.

11. in a typewriting machine, the combination with a rotatable platen and paperapron therefor, of eollatin@ pins or devices at the Jfront side of the platen, a collating 'table adjacent said pins or devices, and

guides for the sheets ofpaper to be collated, said guides being so formed as to guide the sheets 'from the paper-apron over the surface of said paper-table to said pins or devices.

12. 1n a typewriting machine, the combinationavith a rotatable platen and paperaprontherefor, of eollating pins or devices at the front side of the platen, and guiding -ingers for'the edges of the sheets to becollated, said fingers forming a covered guide- Vway for the sheets as they leave the paperapron, and serving to guide said sheets to a position adjacent said eollating pins or devices. i

13. In a typevvriting machine, the combination AWith a rotatable platen and paperapron therefor, of collating pinsor devices` at the front side of the platen, and guiding fingers for the edges of the sheets to be collated, sa-id fingers terminating adjacent said. paper-apron, and forming a covered guide- Way forsaid sheets, so as topositively guide them to said collating pins or devices. l

14. in a typewriting machine, the combinationV with a rotatable platen and paperapron therefor, of collating pins or devices vat the front side of the platen, a collatin table adjacent said pins or devices, an

means at the adjacent edges of said table, i

forming a covered guideway for the sheets to be collated, and arranged to positively:

guide said sheets to a vposition adjacent Said eollating pins or devices.

15. In a front-strike Writing machine, the

A combination with a revoluble platen, of a therebetween, and designed to cchigaging-shonlders formed upon and means for moving said gages sheet-obstructing position.

17; In a iront-strike Writing machine, the combination with a revoluble platen, of a collating table arranged at the delivery side ont thereof, leading-edge Gages placed at the sides of the collating tzole, said gages separated to-permit the ody of the sheet to pass therebetween, and designed to contact with gaging-shoulders formed upon the sheet,

collating table arranged at the delivery side thereof, leading-edge gages placed at the sides of the collating table, said gages separated to permit the body of the sheet'to pass therebetween, and designed to contact with gaging-shoulders formed upon the sheet, 4and means for gaging the side edges of the sheets. 19. In a front-strike Writing machine, th

combination with a revoluble platen, of a collating table arranged atv the delivery side thereof, leading-edge gages placed at the ,sides of the collating table, said gages separated to permit the body of the sheet to pass therebetween, and designed to contact withgaging-shoulders formed upon the sheet, and a lfeed roll releasableV to permit the introduction of the sheet and in position to -press the sheet against the platen while the sheet is in Contact with said gages. 20. In a front-strike writing machine, the combination With a revoluble platen, of a collating tableat the delivery side of the platen, means for gaging and truing the side edge of the Work-sheet, and a leadingedge gage to Contact with a shoulder upon the Work-sheet, mounted at the side of the table to permit the body of the Work-sheet to pass the same While trued by meansof its side edge. 21. vIn a front-strike Writing machine, the

combination with a revolnble platen, of a. y collatlng table at the delivery side of the platen, means .for gaging `and truing the side edge of the work-sheet, a leading-edge gageto contact with a: shoulder upon the Work-sheet, said leading-edge gage mounted at the side 0f the table to permit the body of the Work-sheet to pass the saine While said leading-edge gage' v and means overlying said collating table and sol trued by means of its side edge, and an v overlyingI sheet-guide extending from said leading-edge gage toward the printing line upon the platen.

22. In a front-strike writing machine,the combination with a revoluble platen, of a collating table at the delivery side ei the platen, means for gaging and truing the side`.edge of the work-sheet, aleading-edge Vgagejso contact .with a'shoulder upon the worksheet, said leading-edge` gage mounted for moving said .leading-edge gage1ont--of the vpath of the advancing sheet.

23. In a front-strike Writing machine, the

combination with a revoluble platen, 'of a collating table at the ldelivery side of the platen, means for aging and trung the side edge of the wor -sheet, a leading-ed gage to contact with a shoulder ,upon t e work-sheet, said leading-edge gage mounted x at the side of the table to permlt the' bodyl ofthe work-sheetto pass'the same while. trued by means ofits side edge, a feed roll .to run upon the'V under side of the platen,

and means connected thereto to release said position.

feed roll and simultaneously bring said leading-edge gage to Working position.

24. In a'front'strike Writing machine, the combination with a revoluble platen, of a collating table arranged at the delivery side thereof, leading-edge" ages placed at the sides yof thescollating' ta le, saldgages separated to permit the body of the sheet t0 pass therebetween, and designed to contact"with gaging-shoulders formed upon the sheet, a` 3( feed' roll to run upon tlie under side of the platen, andmeans connectedthereto to release said feed roll` and simultaneously bring said leading-edge gages to working p LESTER A. 'WERNERY.

.. Witnesses ARTHUR A. JOHNSON, l .TENNIE P.V THORNE. 

